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Pinterest · 20 hours ago

Manager II, Production Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$177K/yr - $365K/yr

3+ years exp

Pinterest is a platform where millions find creative ideas and plan for lasting memories. The Manager II of Production Engineering will lead engineers to enhance reliability, scalability, and performance while fostering an inclusive workplace and driving technical architecture discussions.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead our engineers to deliver on the biggest impact work across engineering to ensure we’re infusing best practices into our products relating to reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency

Drive technical architecture discussions; including being capable of driving and decision making for technology or applications that you have not had previous experience with

Continuously assess your team’s performance, address and coach under-performance, and recognize and promote high performance

Create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where every team member feels valued and supported

Foster an environment of open and honest communication, allowing team members to be safe to fail, encourage risk taking with a fail-fast mentality, and establish forums where they can share their ideas

Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles

Create an inspiring team charter and direction that align with the goals of the broader Production Engineering organization

Develop strong partnerships with Product & Program Management partners across infrastructure by communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities

Establish team norms around planning, execution, and continuous improvement

Qualification

Production Engineering experiencePublic cloud platformsReliability concepts expertiseSDLC familiarityInfrastructure technologiesCustomer obsessionTeam managementCommunication skillsDecision makingProblem-solving

Required

3+ years experience managing teams within an SRE, Production Engineering or other Platform/Infrastructure organizations

Customer obsession: Demonstrated ability to work cohesively and build relationships with partners across engineering disciplines and capable of influencing without authority

Familiarity with the concepts and use cases for SDLC including SCM tools, Build platforms, test frameworks, CI/CD products

Familiar with usage and high level architecture of data platform technologies such as relational databases, storage & caching, key value stores, time series data stores, etc

Strong domain expertise in reliability concepts and best practices with the ability to innovate and provide thought leadership and direction in this problem space

Hands on familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Knowledge of Linux systems internals and networking

Thrive in an environment with a lot of ambiguity with the ability to be self sufficient and ruthlessly prioritize the highest impact projects

Infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Tensorflow, ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, and Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, etc)

Heavy bias toward action; able to drive resolution and making quick decisions balancing being data driven along with leveraging your experience & judgement